Mt. Vesuvius - Il Gran Cono

We booked tickets to climb Mt Vesuvius about a week ago. It was a little hard to tell how busy things might get and since there are only a limited number of tickets available each hour (they only allow blocks of 60 each hour), we bought tickets knowing the forecast wasn’t looking great.

As we woke in the morning, the forecast was better, lighter winds and the rain was expected later than our 9:30 visit, so we grabbed to local bus and gave it a shot.

The views over Naples from the bus were very nice (no pictures, sorry), but when we got to the parking at the top, it was socked in and never really got better.

The excitement on the visit came on the bus ride down, where we saw a van very much on fire.Read more